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Un trueno lejano venía arrastrando<br />

la noche por la barranca. Era como<br />

el rugido <strong>de</strong> una montaña herida <strong>de</strong><br />

muerte. Des<strong>de</strong> una altura, un indio<br />

<strong>de</strong> manta agitaba los brazos, gritando<br />

<strong>de</strong>sesperado:<br />

—¡Istúpida, babosa, la repunta, ái viene<br />

la repunta! ¡Corra, istúpida, corra!<br />

La niña, sin oír, seguía llenando<br />

tranquila la tinaja.<br />

En el momento en que la repunta<br />

voltió en el recodo <strong>de</strong>l río, espumo sa<br />

y furibunda, arrasando a su paso los<br />

troncos y las piedras, la altísima muralla<br />

que estaba a espaldas <strong>de</strong> la niña, en la<br />

margen opuesta, altísima y solemne<br />

como un ángel <strong>de</strong> <strong>barro</strong>, abrió sus alas<br />

y se arrojó al paso.<br />

Su <strong>de</strong>rrumbe, acallando todos los<br />

ecos borrachos, había sonado a un<br />

NO profundo y rotundo. La repunta<br />

se <strong>de</strong>tuvo. Y no fue sino cuando la<br />

Santíos había entrado ya en el patio<br />

<strong>de</strong> su rancho, pintando en el <strong>barro</strong> la<br />

flor <strong>de</strong> su patita, que el río abrió <strong>de</strong> un<br />

puñetazo su paso hacia la noche.<br />

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A distant thun<strong>de</strong>r was dragging the<br />

night throughout the ravine. It was<br />

like the roar of a mountain that has<br />

been fatally woun<strong>de</strong>d. From on high<br />

a peasant dressed all in white was<br />

signaling with his arms, shouting<br />

<strong>de</strong>sperately:<br />

“Stupid! You fool! The water is coming,<br />

the water is coming! Run, stupid girl,<br />

run!<br />

The girl, unable to hear, kept calmly<br />

filling her jug.<br />

At that moment the rushing water came<br />

around the bend of the river, foamy<br />

and raging, bringing along tree trunks<br />

and rocks. The highest wall that was<br />

behind the girl, on the opposite si<strong>de</strong>,<br />

most high and solemn like an angel of<br />

clay opened its wings and collapsed on<br />

the wall of water.<br />

The landsli<strong>de</strong>, quieting all the drunken<br />

echoes, soun<strong>de</strong>d like a categorical and<br />

<strong>de</strong>ep NO. The rushing water stopped.<br />

And it wasn’t until Santíos had already<br />

entered the frontyard of her shack,<br />

painting on the clay her footprint like<br />

a flower, that the river thumped its fist<br />

and opened its way towards the night.

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